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Press release: "Continuing our month of shows about looking at portrayals of illness, medicine and caregiving in comic books, we're examining medical manga in two talks recorded at last year's Graphic Medicine conference at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Maria Vaccarella talks about a German Manga about Epilepsy - Epilepsie? Bleib cool! - an educational comic designed to help teenage epilepsy suffers in Germany cope with their condition, also Ada Palmer is talking about the heroism of doctors in the work of Osama Tesuka from Buddha to Black Jack, Astro Boy to Phoenix."